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The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a reaction against Albanian Prime Minister Edi Rama's statements that Bulgaria blocked the start of the country's EU membership negotiations for 8 years.
Our Foreign Ministry strongly rejects his suggestions as unacceptable and unseemly for the behavior of a prime minister of a candidate country for EU membership. Our country once again expresses its position regarding Edi Rama's anti-Bulgarian rhetoric, which has become a permanent refrain of his political speech.
Now it is combined with an anti-European focus and an attempt to humiliate the mechanisms of the European process, our foreign ministry also points out.
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